244 XCI, SOLANACE (WRIGHT). | Solanum. 
hairs ; spines straight, } in. long. Leaves subsessile, bi- to tri-pinnatifid, 
8 in. long, 5 in. broad, with straight spines } in. long on both surfaces 
of the principal veins, upper surface with simple straight hairs, under 
surface with stellate hairs. Cymes racemose, few-flowered ; flowers 
5-merous. Calyx campanulate, spiny, clothed with long-rayed stellate 
hairs ; lobes lanceolate-subulate. Corolla mauve, broadly campanulate, 
about 1din. in diam. Filaments very short ; anthers }in. long, oblong, 
attenuate, pores terminal, small. Ovary globose; style as long as the 
stamens. Fruit globose, 14 in. in diam., white in the upper third. 
green at the base, with many green branching lines from base to apex. 
—Oliv. in Trans. Linn. Soc. xxix. 118; Engl. Pf. Ost-Afr. C. 354, and 
Glied. Veg. Usambara, 18; Medley Wood, Natal Plants, i. 39, t. 49; 
Hiern in Cat. Afr. Pl. Welw. i. 750; C. H. Wright in Dyer, FI. Cap. 
iv. ii, 98. Solanwm no. 8, R. Br. in Speke, Nile, Append. 641. 8. 
Farini, Dammann in Wien. Ill. Gartz. 1896, 405, fig. 59. S. Kil- 
mandschart, Dammer in Engl. Pfl. Ost-Afr. C. 352. 
Upper Guinea. Lagos, Rowland! Dawodu, 37! Gambia, Brown-Lester, 3! 
Abeokuta, Harrison, 23! 
Wile Land. Abyssinia: Begemeder, Schimper, 1404! Niamniam: by the 
Nabambisso River, Schweinfurth, 3047 |! Uganda: Ruwenzori; Kivata, Scott-Elliot, 
7693! Unyoro, Speke & Grant, 605! British East Africa: Ribe, Wakefield ! 
Lower Guinea. Angola: Golungo Alto; Sange, Welwitsch, 6096! Loanda, 
Gossweiler, 388! Bembe, Monteiro ! 
Mozamb. Dist. (German East Africa: Kilimanjaro; road to Moschi, Volkens, 
1729; Dar es Salaam, Kirk / Portugese East Africa; on the mainland and island 
of Mozambique, Peters, between Senna and Lupata, Kirk / 
Var. sem iglabrum, C. H. Wright. Differs from the type in having small spines, 
fewer hairs on the leaves, smaller flowers and calyx-lobes suddenly subulate from a 
broad base. 
Upper Guinea. Northern Nigeria: Nupe, Barter, 1344! 
Also in South Africa. 
94. S. dasyphyllum, Thonn. in Schumach. & Thonn. Beskr. Guin- 
Pl. 126. Stem subherbaceous, branched, terete, tomentose. Leaves 
subsessile, broadly cuneate, with angular lobes, 1 ft. long, 8 in. wide, 
with branched hairs on both surfaces; spines on both surfaces of the 
larger nerves subulate, straight, compressed, } in. long. Racemes leaf- 
opposed, 4—8-flowered ; pedicels cernuous, }-} in. long. Calyx 5-par- 
tite, rather woolly, spiny; lobes lanceolate, subacuminate, patent. 
Corolla rotate, blueish, # in. in diam., villous outside the midpetaline 
areas. Stamens 5, equal, about half as long as the corolla ; filaments 
very short; anthers oblong-linear. Ovary subglobose; style filiform ; 
stigma obtuse. Berry subglobose, size of a large apple, dusky yellow. 
Upper Guinea. Cultivated ground, Thonning. 
Imperfectly known species. 
95. S. africanum, Dunal, Hist. Solan. 238; Syn. Solan. 48. 
Leaves much and deeply crenate. Fruit baccate.—DC. Prodr. xiii. i, 372. 
Africa, without precise locality, ex Dunal. 
